The mayor's remarks prompted criticism from the public and at least one fellow city councillor -- Shelley Carroll -- who accused him of "thinly veiled homophobia."Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale Canada, strongly disagreed with this assessment:
"There's nothing 'thinly veiled' about it. It's overt homophobia."Sure. And refusing to watch Jersey Shore reruns is overt heterophobia.
Four
million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, are living in
households where it is sometimes a struggle to put food on the table,
researchers at the University of Toronto have found.It was in the past 40 years that the immigrant of dubious loyalty emerged, followed by the disloyal native-born, sometimes of immigrant ancestry, sometimes of Islamic conversion. The new immigrant seemed ready to share the West's wealth but not its values. In many ways he resembled an invader more than a settler or an asylum-seeker. Instead of making efforts to assimilate, the invader demanded changes in the host country's culture.Democracy, Immigration, Multiculturalism -- pick any two.
The mayor's remarks prompted criticism from the public and at least one fellow city councillor -- Shelley Carroll -- who accused him of "thinly veiled homophobia."Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale Canada, strongly disagreed with this assessment:
"There's nothing 'thinly veiled' about it. It's overt homophobia."Sure. And refusing to watch Jersey Shore reruns is overt heterophobia.
The Canada Revenue Agency is currently conducting extensive audits on some of Canada's most prominent environmental groups to determine if they comply with guidelines that restrict political advocacy, CBC News has learned.The list of groups CBC has now confirmed are undergoing audits reads like a who's who in the environmental charity world. They include:
If the CRA rules that the groups exceeded those limits, their charitable status could be revoked, which would effectively shut them down.
[...]
The David Suzuki Foundation
Tides Canada
West Coast Environmental Law
The Pembina Foundation
Environmental Defence
Equiterre
Ecology Action Centre
"This is a war against the sector," says John Bennett, of Sierra Club Canada.Scorched earth, baby.
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Instead of continuing to wonder, I decided to dig into the literature and talk to toxicologists, horticulturists, risk experts and nutritionists to find out whether the chemicals in conventionally farmed foods could truly pose a risk to my child. What I've discovered has totally surprised me...
Bosch Rexroth is just the latest in a series of setbacks the wind energy industry has seen over the last months. Germany's solar industry has already collapsed and wind energy is just the latest victim in Germany's rollback of renewable energies. Spiegel here writes that Germany's solar industry has shedded half its jobs in the last two years alone!
